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Those who knew : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780525560432
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Physical Description:
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248 pages ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
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| Subject: | Authoritarianism -- Fiction Legislators -- Fiction Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Political corruption -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Headingley Municipal Library | NOV (Text) | 36440000272348 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"-- - Baker & Taylor
From the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear comes a timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down. - Baker & Taylor
A young woman who suspects that a powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder faces the consequences of her own silence ten years previously, when she told no one about the violent incident that ended their relationship. - Penguin Putnam
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by * NPR * Esquire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Real Simple * BBC * PopSugar * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub
"A gripping, astute, and deeply humane political thriller.' 'the Boston Globe
'mesmerizing [and] uncannily prescient.''Los Angeles Times
A taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down, from the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear.
On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who's been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship.
Why didn't Lena speak up then, and will her family's support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman's death is wrong?
What follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country. Those Who Knew confirms Novey's place as an essential new voice in American fiction.
